COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Federal prosecutors won’t charge a deputy who was recorded tossing a student out of a desk at a South Carolina high school after she refused to give up her cellphone. In this Monday, Oct, 26, 2015 photo made from video taken by a Spring Valley High School student, Senior Deputy Ben Fields tries […]
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Black S.C. Student is Charged after Being Tossed from Desk by White Cop—Parents Protest
Screeshot from video of Richland County deputy Ben Fields yanking a 16-year-old female student from her desk. (YouTube) COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group of Black parents plans to present a petition calling for officials to drop charges against a 16-year-old South Carolina high school student who was videotaped being yanked from her desk and […]
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Sheriff: White School Officer Fired after Tossing Black Student in Class
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A deputy was fired Wednesday after video showed him flipping a teen backward out of her desk and tossing her across a classroom, with the sheriff saying the officer did not follow proper procedures and training. In this Monday, Oct, 26, 2015 photo made from video taken by a Spring Valley […]
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Feds Probing S.C. Videotaped Arrest of Disruptive Student
This undated photo provided by the Richland County (S.C.) Sheriff’s Department shows school resource officer Senior Deputy Ben Fields, in Columbia, S.C. The Justice Department opened a civil rights probe Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015, into the arrest of a student who refused to leave her high school math class, after Fields was recorded flipping the […]